Keynote: Cybersecurity's Image Problem and What We Can All Do About It

Keynote: Cybersecurity's Image Problem and What We Can All Do About It Speaker: Dr. Victoria Baines (Bournemouth University, GB) About Speaker: Victoria Baines frequently contributes to major broadcast media outlets on digital ethics, cybercrime and the misuse of emerging technologies. Her areas of research include electronic surveillance, cybercrime futures, and the politics of security. She also provides research expertise to a number of international organisations. ---- Those of us who work in cybersecurity have become immune to the ways we tend to represent threats: military and fantasy imagery, acronyms, and fancy animals among them. How do these representations play out for so-called 'ordinary' people who don't share our specialist knowledge? Based on new research into the rhetoric of cybersecurity, this talk combines a light-hearted critique of security jargon with serious analysis of its impact on protection from threats, and even who gets to work in cybersecurity. It doesn't have to be this way, and Victoria has ideas for how we might empower people to protect themselves and help solve our recruitment issues.